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PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun

If you're looking to come up with a different way of cooling a big CPU or GPU to get more oomph out of it, your options are a bit limited. Water loops, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, mineral oil—they've all been done before and to varying degrees of success. Enter stage left, one tech YouTuber with a cooler from a Dodge Journey SUV and a whole heap of automatic transmission fluid.

The content creator in question happens to be YouTube channel TrashBench (via TechSpot), and on face value, I think it's fair to say that its recent endeavour to cool the pants off a GeForce GTX 1060 and 1080 Ti more than lives up to the channel's name. I'm not being mean here; it's just that automatic transmission fluid (ATF) is the last thing you'd pick for trying to cool down a GPU.

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